Following international criticism at Turkey's decision to send troops into Northern Iraq to train Kurdish forces without Baghdad's permission, Nabil Elaraby, Secretary-General of the Arab League, said the act was a "blatant intervention."
He told newspaper Al Youm El Sabea that while the Arab League couldn't take direct action against Turkey, they could release a statement condemning Ankara for the breach of Iraq's national sovereignty.
Elaraby also warned that if Turkey continued to intervene in Iraqi territory without permission, then the Arab League would go to the UN Security Council to try and resolve the issue.
The furor comes after more than 100 Turkish troops, along with tanks and artillery, entered Kurdish-controlled territory in Northern Iraq...
[Sputnik]
7/12/15
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Turkey has pulled 350 troops back from the Turkish-Iraqi border after reaction from Baghdad over the deployment of more Turkish soldiers in Mosul...
ReplyDeleteThe troops were waiting on the border and will be sent to Iraq if Ankara and Baghdad agreed on the issue, sources told Hürriyet Daily News.
Turkey has deployed nearly 600 troops to train Iraqi Sunni local guards in Mosul.
The United States has reiterated its opposition to the deployment of any military forces inside Iraq without consent from the Iraqi government.
“The U.S. does not support military deployments inside Iraq [without] the consent of the Iraqi government. This includes the deployment of U.S. military personnel, as well as military personnel from any other country,” U.S. President Barack Obama’s special envoy for the global coalition to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Brett McGurk, said late Dec. 6.................hurriyetdailynews.com